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Indian policemen rest in a park after a Kashmir curfew is lifted, Sunday. Indian authorities lifted a six-day curfew on Sunday across Muslim-majority Kashmir valley after an uneasy calm returned to the disputed region rocked by weeks of separatists violence, police said.

Authorities Sunday lifted the Kashmir curfew imposed after weeks of protests by separatists and bouts of violence that led to Indian troops being deployed to control the crowds.

But many areas remained quiet as a coalition of separatist parties called for a strike to protest Indian rule of the state, known officially as Jammu and Kashmir. Tensions have soared as at least 15 people have died in protests and clashes with police over the last month; residents blame the deaths on police and paramilitary forces.

Protests against Indian rule of the Muslim-majority region in the late 1980s led to a conflict that killed tens of thousands of people. Separatists have called for independence from India or a merger with Pakistan.